Behavior therapy has made significant inroads into a number of clinical problems. Recently, an American Psychological Association task force concluded that behavioral treatments for problems such as skill deficits, panic disorder phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc., can be "validated." With a move away from contemporary learning research, this book is the right book at the right time. In recent years, behavior therapists have largely not kept up with the developments in learning research and theory. This book attempts to improve the field's future prospects by providing a readable, comprehensive, and accurate description of contemporary learning research. This edited volume covers all of the major dimensions of the field and encourages clinicians to apply contemporary learning research to clinical problems. Topics include: classical conditioning, inhibition, obsessive-compulsive disorders, latent inhibition, punishment, extinction, stimulus equivalence, and much more. Current and future clinicians and behavior therapists.

Learning and Behavior Therapy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

O′Donohue, William T.

Psychology & Counseling

Pearson

An accessible guide to clinical practice Great Readings in Clinical Science: Essential Selections for Mental Health Professions is the first book to focus exclusively on teaching students how to think scientifically about clinical practice. These user-friendly and accessible readings provide students with basic critical thinking skills needed to evaluate evidence concerning the assessment, causes, and treatment of mental disorders, and will allow students to become better informed consumers of the literature in clinical psychology, counseling psychology, social work, psychiatry, and other allied disciplines. It will also be an indispensable guide to graduate students in training, as it will help show them how to think critically about psychotherapy and other domains of clinical practice. The book consists of classic selections about both science in general and clinical science in particular, and should be required reading for all students who aspire to become mental health professionals. Great Readings in Clinical Science is intended for undergraduates and graduate students, as well as teachers, researchers, and practicing clinicians. Teaching &amp; Learning Experience <ul>
<li> Improve Critical Thinking – Classic readings focus on scientific thinking as applied to clinical research and practice.</li> <li> Engage Students – Formal academic readings are combined with light/humorous sections to create a user-friendly guide.</li> <li> Explore Research – A diverse selection of readings allows students to examine the science behind clinical practice.</li> </ul>

Great Readings in Clinical Science: Essential Selections for Mental Health Professionals

Lilienfeld, Scott O.

After a period of economic success and high regard in society, clinical psychology has fallen onto hard times, assert authors Nicholas Cummings and William O’Donohue. In the 1960s, clinical psychologists with doctorates were well paid in relation to comparable professions; today, starting salaries are lower than many jobs that require only a bachelor’s degree. Clinical psychology in the 1960s was preferred and valued over other fields as a profession; today it is not even on the list of top 20 fields for graduates to enter. Psychologists’ opinions on social issues are disregarded by the public. What was and continues to be the reason for the decline and continuing descent of clinical psychology? The authors posit that the profession blundered and has not adapted to the profound changes that have taken place in American society over the past 40 years. Psychotherapy practice is based on a 50-minute hour, yet mental health treatment must operate at a much briefer, more efficient pace. Clinicians ignore the findings of scientific research for effective treatments and favor the overblown pronouncements of gurus who preach without substance. Clinicians failed to adapt their practice to the needs of the healthcare industry and do not recognize that psychotherapy is health profession. An anti-business bias has contributed to training programs that ignore the economic realities of running a practice. The failure to secure prescription privileges, the invention of diagnoses, and political correctness are among the other blunders that pull the profession away from its primary mission -- mental health treatment -- and contribute to the low esteem in which psychologists are held. The authors enumerate and discuss the Eleven Blunders That Cripple Psychotherapy in America and offer remedies to correct the ongoing decline of the field.

Eleven Blunders that Cripple Psychotherapy in America: A Remedial Unblundering

Cummings, Nicholas A.

Mental Health

Routledge

Learn and apply the 14 core principles of cognitive behavior therapy In this invaluable guide, clinicians will find―identified and summarized by leading researchers and clinicians―fourteen core principles that subsume the more than 400 cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatment protocols currently in use, so they may apply them to their everyday practice. This unique contribution to the field provides practitioners with a balance of history, theory, and evidence-based applications. Edited by renowned experts in the field, Cognitive Behavior Therapy explores the core principles behind all CBT protocols including: <ul>
<li>Clinical functional analysis</li> <li>Skills training</li> <li>Exposure</li> <li>Relaxation</li> <li>Cognitive restructuring</li> <li>Problem solving</li> <li>Self-regulation</li> </ul>
A straightforward introduction to CBT principles with guidance for all mental health professionals seeking to improve the lives of clients spanning a range of psychological problems, Cognitive Behavior Therapy is designed for both new and experienced clinicians alike who want to deepen and broaden their understanding of CBT principles.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Core Principles for Practice

wiley

The Psychology of B F Skinner

Ferguson, Kyle E.

Sage Publications, Inc.

Behaviorists, or more precisely Skinnerians, commonly consider Skinner′s work to have been misrepresented, misunderstood, and to some extent defamed. In this book, the author clarifies the work of B F Skinner, and puts it into historical and philosophical context. Though not a biography, the book discusses Skinner himself, in brief. But the bulk of the book illuminats Skinner′s contributions to psychology, his philosophy of science, his experimental research program (logical positivism) and the behavioral principles that emerged from it, and applied aspects of his work. It also rebuts criticism of Skinner′s work, including radical behaviorism, and discusses key developments by others that have derived from it.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

A guide to working effectively with children in the criminal justice system Uniquely designed to train psychology, criminology, and social work students to work with children in the criminal justice system―both in the courtroom and as clinical clients―Forensic Child Psychology presents current research and practice-based knowledge to improve the judicial and child welfare systems. Authors Matthew Fanetti, William T. O'Donohue, Rachel N. Happel, and Kresta N. Daly bring their combined expertise in child psychology, forensic interviewing, and criminal prosecution to bear on the process of obtaining accurate information from children involved in legal proceedings, preparing professionals to work with: <ul>
<li>Children who are victims of crime</li> <li>Children who are perpetrators of crime</li> <li>Children who are witnesses of crime</li> </ul>
The book also covers related topics, including mandated reporting, the structure of juvenile justice and advocacy systems, and contains sidebars, summaries, glossaries, and study questions to assist with material mastery. This is an excellent resource for students of child psychopathology in psychology, social work, nursing, and criminal justice at the graduate and late undergraduate stage of their educations.

Forensic Child Psychology: Working in the Courts and Clinic

Fanetti, Matthew

Fondren-Happel, Rachel

Daly, Kresta N.

Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy: Toward an Improved Understanding of Effective Psychotherapy

Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy explores a wide range of constructs not captured in the DSM or traditional research but that play important roles in psychotherapy cases. To provide readers with a tool bag of practical techniques they can use in these cases, editors William O′Donohue and Steven R. Graybar present chapters written by leading clinical authorities on such topics as the process of change in psychotherapy, attachment and terror management, projective identification, terminating psychotherapy therapeutically, shame and its many ramifications for clients, dream work, boundaries, forgiveness, the repressed and recovered memory debate, and many others.

Graybar, Steven R.

Nicholas Cummings has been called a lot of things in his life … entrepreneur is one of them. The Cummings legacy will be voluminous and manifold. His contributions to the field have spanned the many definitions of practicing psychology – from education to policy, from business to ongoing exploration. He has been predicting trends, cautioning those who would listen, and negotiating the obstacles to efficacious delivery of quality therapeutic services for over half a century. With this book, we pause once again to revisit some of the most important of his projects as an entrepreneur. 
Editors Thomas, Cummings, and O’Donohue took on a difficult task when they set out to convince Cummings to tell the story behind the story of how and why he created the various organizations selected here. Of course, he balked at the idea of "showing off" these successes, but the editors were finally able to persuade him of the potential benefit to readers. First, there is the revelation of psychologist as entrepreneur and the delicate balance that is required in order to proceed in this direction with integrity and effectiveness. More important, these organizations were for the most part conceived of as being in service to the profession or to its legislators rather than being focused on profits. Their success, therefore, has had more than a little to do with strengthening the ability of the field to move forward even as it is pulled in different directions. 
In the end, Nick Cummings decided to tell the story behind the story and readers will be very glad he did. Part history, part memoir, this is a fascinating whodunit, and each time you’ll find Nick Cummings … seeing the need, envisioning a way to meet it, and then doing it!

The Entrepreneur in Psychology: The Collected Papers of Nicholas A. Cummings, Vol. II

ODonohue, William T.

Zeig,Tucker & Theisen

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Learning and Behavior Therapy

Great Readings in Clinical Science: Essential Selections for Mental Health Professionals

Eleven Blunders that Cripple Psychotherapy in America: A Remedial Unblundering

Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Core Principles for Practice

The Psychology of B F Skinner

The Psychology of B F Skinner

Forensic Child Psychology: Working in the Courts and Clinic

Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy: Toward an Improved Understanding of Effective Psychotherapy

Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy: Toward an Improved Understanding of Effective Psychotherapy

The Entrepreneur in Psychology: The Collected Papers of Nicholas A. Cummings, Vol. II